Gigi's Logic Puzzles

This Week's Exciting Puzzle: Playing Mortal Kombat

This puzzle appeared in Volume 78, Issue 2 (Oct 2, 1998) of mathNEWS.


Five friends at U(W) decided to get together last weekend and play Mortal Kombat on Nintendo 64. Each person brought with them a snack and a CD to listen to (all of which happened to be soundtracks). Each person also chose a different MK character (actually N64 lets you choose two per match, but I forgot about this when I made the puzzle). They played a round-robin competition (each person plays against each other person once), with the winner of the tournament being the person who won the most number of matches. Can you discover the snack and soundtrack each person (Dave, Gary, Lisa, Mark and Wendy) brought, the MK character each person played with, and the final place each person came in?


  1. The five players are: Dave; the person who won two games; the person who brought the Lost Boys soundtrack, the person who brought Pringles, and the person who played and won the first game against Gary.
  2. Gary then went on to lose his next game against Wendy, and one game versus the person who used Kai.
  3. The top two players also played a tiebreaker game. The overall player was the person who had previously lost to the other.
  4. The person who brought the Trainspotting CD (who did not bring Crispers) won two games, one using Shinok's really neat laser weapon.
  5. Mark refused to bring chips, and preferred playing with Reptile.
  6. During the game that Dave lost to Gary, he asked the person who brought the Crying Game soundtrack to pass him the snack that Mark brought.
  7. Neither Gary nor Wendy brought popcorn.
  8. The final regular game was lost by the same person who won the first game, and was lost to the person who brought Pringles.
  9. Lisa won one game against the person who brought Doritos, and lost one game versus the person who played with Tanya. Mark lost one game versus the person who played Shinok.
  10. The person who brought the Top Gun CD brought popcorn.
  11. The person who brought the Top Gun soundtrack did not play with either Raiden or Kai.
  12. Wendy lost one game to Dave.
  13. The person who brought the pretzels lost three games, but beat the person who played with Raiden (who was not Dave).
  14. Dave won one game against the person who brought Bladerunner, and lost one game versus the person who brought Crispers (who did not bring the Crying Game).
  15. The number of regular games won by the guys is equal to the number of regular games won by the girls.
  16. The person who brought the pretzels did not bring the Lost Boys CD or the Crying Game soundtrack.


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